{"id":166201,"date":"2018-06-05T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166201"},"modified":"2018-06-05T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T09:41:09","slug":"prrd-taking-commercial-flights-new-norm-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/05\/prrd-taking-commercial-flights-new-norm-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD taking commercial flights \u2018new norm\u2019: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_166204\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166204\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/duterte-cabinet_5b16501d7457c0_55677557-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-166204\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/duterte-cabinet_5b16501d7457c0_55677557-1.jpg\" alt=\"Duterte left the country last Sunday aboard a Philippine Airlines flight for his three-day official visit to South Korea at the invitation of South Korean President Moon Jae-in. (PNA photo)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duterte left the country last Sunday aboard a Philippine Airlines flight for his three-day official visit to South Korea at the invitation of South Korean President Moon Jae-in. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s decision to take commercial flights would be the new norm for presidential travels, Malaca\u00f1ang said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is intended to save taxpayers\u2019 money,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press briefing in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte left the country last Sunday aboard a Philippine Airlines flight for his three-day official visit to South Korea at the invitation of South Korean President Moon Jae-in.<\/p>\n<p>The President is expected to take another commercial flight when he returns Tuesday evening from his visit to Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte\u2019s first trip to South Korea has yielded USD4.9-billion worth of investments, including a USD1-billion loan agreement with an interest of only 0.15 percent and payable in 40 years with a grace period of 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The USD1-billion Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) from South Korea will be used to finance major infrastructure projects in the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>When he attended the 32nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Singapore, Duterte took an eight-seater private plane instead of a chartered flight to save money.<\/p>\n<p>Roque had said it would be expensive for the government to charter an airplane and a leaner delegation would mean lesser cost for the government.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he confirmed that Duterte has fired acting Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) president and chief executive officer (CEO) Celestina Ma. Jude de La Serna for excessive travels.<\/p>\n<p>Dela Serna was replaced by fellow PhilHealth board member Roy Ferrer, a native of Davao.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s decision to take commercial flights would be the new norm for presidential travels, Malaca\u00f1ang said Tuesday. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":166204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[1987,38323,13135,31449],"class_list":["post-166201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-philippine-airlines","tag-president-moon-jae-in","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roque","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}